The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard's stars is the closest single star to Earth. Credit: ESO ...

A House task force on government transparency is set to host a hearing Tuesday, Sept. 9 in which four witnesses will offer testimony about UFOs.

If you were able to land on Uranus, which you can’t because it is made of gas, you would be greeted with something that ...

When scientists discovered the first planet orbiting another star in 1995, few outside astronomy circles noticed. That planet, 51 Pegasi b, opened the door to a field that now boasts more than 5,000 ...

Spotting Earth-like planets is nearly impossible with conventional telescopes, but researchers propose a bold fix: a rectangular design that can separate a planet’s faint glow from its blinding star.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. WISPIT 2b, a hungry infant planet found gobbling up matter around a young star as seen by the ...

Astronomers have discovered a hungry baby planet gobbling up material around an infant star located around 430 light-years from Earth. The planet has been given the suitably cute name WISPIT 2b.

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disc of dust and gas with multiple rings. The ground-breaking discovery was made using European Southern ...

"Life can be understood as complexity, and water has a wide range of properties that enable this complexity." Scientists have developed a better model to understand "steam worlds," which are planets ...